A group of scholars and teacher organization officials committed to strategic foresight and collaborative research.
Dennis Shirley, Professor of Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, is recognized as one of the foremost experts in educational change including the power of networks for advancing public education. His most recent publication, The New Imperatives of Educational Change: Achievement with Integrity, sets out principles […]
Currently among teacher organizations the stated commitment to advocacy for public education through strategic foresight and research is often challenged by a seemingly endless chain of internally and externally driven short-term concerns (McCollow, 2017). The initial impetus of the network two years ago in the initial Sydney Summit was the
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The document we share here was developed by the team at Futures Leadership for Change (Stephen Murgatroyd, J-C Couture, and Jean Stiles) in November 2019 as a background paper for a conversation in Europe about the challenge faced by public school systems in the developed world. We would like your
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The purpose of this meeting was to bring together 15-20 representative senior leaders and staff from teacher organizations and academic researchers from around the world to develop a strategic plan to help the academy and teacher organizations to rethink and produce new ways to work together. The Manchester meeting was
The Manchester meeting partly built on some of the early informal conversations initiated in Sydney, Australia this past March. The Sydney summit brought together 22 invited academics and teacher unions focused on the theme of Advancing the influence and impact of educational research in the public interest 2019-2022. At the Sydney meeting
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